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> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 03:51:25 +0930
> From: Mark Moody <ecoresources@bigpond.com>
> Subject: [permaculture] Permaculture Swiki
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> Hi everyone.
>
> Please participate in an experiment with me! You have probably heard  
> of the permaculture wiki. I have just created the Permaculture Swicki  
> (a search wiki) which can be optimised by you just like any other  
> wiki. This is a search engine that learns from our community's search  
> behavior and is specifically relevant to permaculture. It apparently  
> gets better with use and is pointed at all the major permie sites.
>
> If you have a website or blog you can also  post the swicki searchbox  
> and buzzcloud (working example below) on your own site. This will  
> grow the permaculture swicki community and increase the learning  
> effect. Give it a try as a searcher or as a webmaster. Searches seem  
> really spot on to me. What do you think?
>
> Here is the address as a URL.  http://permaculture-swicki.eurekster.com/
>
> cheers
>
> Mark Moody

Nice but for two points.
1) Its not open source software.
2) You can only host it on their site. Hence restrictive terms of use, 
inability to fork.

Rich

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